Nicholas Anstey

Nicholas Anstey is a Senior Principal Research Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research, Flinders University, specializing in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases. His work primarily focuses on zoonotic malaria species, particularly Plasmodium knowlesi, P. vivax, and P. cynomolgi, with an emphasis on epidemiology, diagnostics, and public health impacts.

Research Trends: Recent work spans genomic epidemiology of malaria parasites, acute kidney injury complications in non-falciparum malaria, and development of advanced diagnostic techniques like reverse transcription and microhaplotype sequencing for improved disease surveillance. Subfields include tropical parasitology, cytokine signaling in malaria, and economic burden of zoonotic infections.